Banipal (41) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature

Banipal 41 – Celebrating Adonis (2011)

EDITORIAL – Samuel Shimon

Ashur Etwebi – Six Poems, translated by Khaled Mattawa
Rabee Jaber – Excerpt from the novel Druze of Belgrade: Hanna Yacoub’s Story, translated by Nancy Roberts
Ali Bader – An excerpt from the novel The Tobacco Keeper, translated by Amira Nowaira
Alexandra Chreiteh  – An excerpt from the novel Always Coca Cola, translated by Michelle Hartman
Amir Tag Elsir  – Chapters from the novel The Larvae Hunter, translated by William M Hutchins

ARABIC WRITERS IN SWEDEN
Salim Barakat – An excerpt from the novel Rampaging Geese, translated by Thomas Aplin
Manhal Alsarraj – An excerpt from the novel As the River Must, translated by Ghenwa Hayek
Faraj Bayrakdar – A Poem, translated by Camilo Gomez-Rivas
Jalil Haydar – Four Poems, translated by Allison Blecker
Mohammad  Afif al-Hussaini – Two Poems, translated by Robin Moger
Nassif al-Nassiri – Five Poems, translated by John Peate
Sabri Youssef  – A short story The Sweetness of Laughter, translated by Ghenwa Hayek
Farouq Salloum – Two poems, translated by John Peate
Jonas Hassen Khemiri – Vanya Knows, a short story translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles
Johanna Sellman – on Jonas Hassen Khemiri

CELEBRATING ADONIS
V.S. Naipaul – A Master of our Times
Adonis – from “Concerto for Jerusalem”, translated by Khaled Mattawa
Abdo Wazen – Adonis’s Concerto
Joachim Sartorius – Citizen of the world
Yang Lian – Poetry will save us
Roger Allen – A genuine modernity
Khaled Mattawa – On the road with Adonis
Hassouna Mosbahi – Between Goethe and Adonis
Hassan Najmi – Adonis the Lighthouse
Aziz Shaibani – Adonis in Texas
Stephen Watts – The Human is the Poetry of the Universe

GUEST LITERATURE – SLOVENIA
Mojca Pišek – Introducing five Slovenian poets
Uroš Zupan – Two poems
Jure Jacob  – Two poems
Katja Perat – A poem
Primož Cucnik – Two poems
Veronika Dintinjana – A poem

Gabriela Babnik – Six stories from society’s margins
Feri Lainscek – The Untouchables
Dušan Šarotar – Billards at Hotel Dobray
Jani Virk – A View of Tycho Brahe
Polona Glavan – The Unusual Identity of Nina B.
Vesna Lemaic – The Dumping Ground
Gabriela Babnik – In the Tall Grass

BOOK REVIEWS
Mona Zaki: A Palace in the Old Village by Tahar Ben Jelloun
André Naffis-Sahely: Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali
Susannah Tarbush: I Shall Not Hate by Isseldin Abuelaish
Olivia Snaije: Bye Bye Babylone by Lamia Ziadé
Mona Zaki: Spectres by Radwa Ashour
Norbert Hirshhorn: Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

BOOKS IN BRIEF
The Coffeehouse,  As Though She Were Sleeping, An Iraqi in Paris, Homeless Rats, Anatomy of A Disappearance, Zeina, Merzapamed: Prince of Dore, Montecore, Memoirs of a Dervish, The Rising of the Ashes, Arts and Politics/Politics and Art, Plague Lands and other poems, On the State of Egypt,  Tweets from Tahrir.

EVENT
London: Ramsey Nasr at World Literature Weekend

LAST PAGE
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